It is destined to be a sleepless night! The capital was in complete chaos, with so many people coming and going in the dark, communicating secretly, and so many spies spying on everything.
The Qinghe Iron Works specially set aside an unused warehouse and turned it into a temporary torture room. The thugs who were arrested have now become bloody gourds!
The long workshop is erected with tall iron frames, which will be the place where gantry cranes will be installed in the future. The cooled iron materials from the ironworks will be lifted from here to the train carriages.
But now the gantry crane is not installed yet, but the torture device for hanging people is ready!
The big hands tied up were hung in the air. Ma Ming sat aside and drank tea anxiously. The three treasures were already carrying the whip themselves.
Bang bang bang... bang bang bang...
The thugs were whipped with whips dipped in strong salt water, causing screams to come one after another!
"Tell me... why you killed people! Who asked you to do it... Tell me or not..."
Bang bang... bang bang...
"Stop fighting... I... I said... I am Uncle Guang Liang's man... I was the one who killed people... Stop fighting!"
Snap, snap, snap... snap, snap, snap... the whip never stopped.
"Whether you want to say..."
"Stop fighting...I've...I've already confessed..."
It doesn’t matter if you confess or not, but if you do, continue to fight! Ma Ming and Na Sanbao's torture routine is very simple and crude, they just beat you non-stop until you lose your mind!
You cannot believe what you confess from the first to the third time. What you confess from the fourth to sixth time may be because you are in pain and confused. You cannot believe anything you say casually!
Only when your skin is bruised and you are unconscious, can the confession you subconsciously make have the value of recording, and it must be made more than ten times in a row to pick out the common things.
This can guarantee that it is the truth!
In fact, these thugs are not hard-core. They are just like mothers if they have breasts. They will kill people for money. They have no loyalty to their employers.
I used to think that Uncle Guang Liang could protect their lives, but now it turns out that is not the case at all. The emperor is really angry. Who can save their lives?
In fact, what these more than ten killers told the truth for the first time, but they couldn't stand Ma Ming and Sanbao. They didn't want the first confession, but the confessions ten or eight times after!
So, beat me even if you tell the truth, beat me non-stop until you cry for your father and mother and want to die!
Stab... The red iron burned on his chest. The killer who had just been knocked unconscious woke up from the pain again, and his screams spread throughout the Qinghe Iron Works.
"Tell me... how did you kill people, and why was there no movement at all?"
"Stop fighting... I've said it three times... We did it secretly... Master, please get around me, we are telling the truth!"
In the workshop, these killers were slaughtered like pigs, while in the workshop next door, all ten supervisors were tied hand and foot to a pillar, with soldiers guarding them on both sides!
They were not sentenced to death, not because Ma Ming and the others were lenient, but because it was not their turn yet!
The 10th Route Controller was so frightened that he didn't even dare to talk. Even if he raised his head and made eye contact, the soldier would be snarky!
Guang Liang secretly said to the soldiers beside him, "Brother...brother...take my note and go to my house to pick up three thousand taels of silver for tea..."
"I just ask my brother to send a message to the city... Three thousand is not enough, five thousand is fine... Ten thousand is okay..."
Whoosh...pop...
There was a crisp sound, and a red blood mark was drawn from Guang Liang's neck with a whip!
"What a great gesture. Uncle Guangliang is really rich... He drank a lot of people's fat and people's ointment!"
Xin Jian walked up to him with a bright yellow silk riding crop in his hand and looked at Guang Liang coldly!
When Guang Liang saw it was Xin Jian, his eyes were filled with hatred: "Xin Jian! What grudge do I have against you? Are you so unwilling to let me go?"
When he lowered his head again, he discovered that the whip used to whip him was the riding whip given to Xin Jian by the emperor!
At this moment, his heart went cold, and his eyes suddenly filled with fearful retreat.
"Xin Jian! If you are jealous of me getting rich, tell me! We are not unreasonable. It's okay to give you 10%? Why do you want to ruin our fortune?"
"Are you Chinese so unreasonable? Are you too overbearing?"
Xin Jian gritted his molar teeth and said, "Okay, okay...you still dare to ask me back? I came here just to ask you...how did you grow up with such a heart?"
"Why do you want to kill people and silence them? Why don't you even spare your life when you are greedy for people's money and food?"
"Xin Jian... I will say this a hundred times. We did not order the killing at all, it was the minions under our command who did it!"
"What we want is money, not lives. As long as they don't resist, will we kill people with enough food? As for today's matter, no matter what, I will plead guilty to corruption, but I will not plead guilty to murder! "
"Yes! That's right... aren't we just greedy for money? We didn't kill anyone. We didn't kill Wang Grasshopper and the others. You can't blame us!" The other supervisors also started shouting.
Xin Jian had just come out of the torture workshop next door. He compared many confessions and found that these people did not receive orders from Guang Liang and others, and indeed acted without authorization.
But Xin Jian still wanted to ask these bastards, "Are you still justified in your corruption? This Capital Iron Factory is full of impoverished people who have lost their land. They finally have a chance to make money to support their families!"
"Why do you want their money and bully honest people?"
"Why? Just because they don't deserve it!" Guang Liang also took the risk, and there was no need to use nice words at this point.
"They are all a bunch of stinky idiots. How can they earn 120 pennies a day? How can they have such a fate? This money shouldn't be theirs!"
"In the coolie market in the capital, the work these people earn is twenty or thirty cents a day... which is enough for them to eat and drink!"
"Why can even a child earn 60 cash? Why can people like Wang Grasshopper earn 120 cash?"
"Xin Jian, you don't understand! This is actually a benefit given to us by the imperial court, and the extra money will be given to our Eight Banners!"
Guang Liang and others' faces were full of grievances at this moment. They were not quibbling, the truth they said was the truth they absolutely believed in their hearts!
"Monarch, minister, minister, father, son, son... these are the rules! We are all the emperor's slaves, but I am also the prince's slave, and my thugs are my slaves!"
"It's just layer after layer. Isn't it what the sage said about kings, kings and ministers, fathers and sons? They are all layered one on top of the other!"
"How dare you, Xin Jian, say that you are not Xiao Letian's slave? How dare you say that?"
"We eat the money of our own slaves, why are you so anxious? Officers have to drink the blood of soldiers and live on empty wages. Of course, those of us who work on projects have to eat the money and food of hard workers, their oil and water!"
"Isn't this a matter of course?"
"Isn't this a matter of course?"
"You Xin Jian said...isn't this a matter of course?"
"How can it be wrong for a master to eat a slave?"
